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Show DAILY HERALD A2 Monday, ApnS2X20O7 Student's tolerance column leads to teacher's suspension an opinion piece advocating teaching safe sex practices over abstinence education, for the same Jan. 19 issue because she thought that "was going to cause the stir." But she acknowledges she never mentioned Chase's column. "There isn't anything controversial about tolerance," she said. Stan Pflueger, president of the Fort Wayne chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbian and Gays and a graduate of the school district, said he was disappointed with the school system's reactioa "The spirit of the article is just asking people to consider what your previous beliefs were about this particular subject," he said. "There's a difference between tolerance and Tom Coyne Law Center in Arlington, Va. School of ficials in this community of 1,600 residents, 10 The miles east of Fort Wayne, say WOODBURN. Ind. the issue isn't First Amendcolumn in the student newspament rights but a teacher's per seemed innocent enough: failure to live up to her responadvocating tolerance for peosibilities. They contend Sorrell ple "different than you." should have alerted Principal But since sophomore MeEd Yoder to the article because gan Chase's words appeared of the sensitivity of the mateJan. 19 in The Tomahawk, rial. the newspaper at Woodlan Junior-Seni"The way we view it is the High School, her broad topic of homosexuality is newspaper adviser has been a sensitive enough issue in our suspended and is fighting for her job, and charges of censor- society that the principal deserves to know that it's someship and First Amendment violations are clouding this thing the newspaper is going to write about," said Andy conservative northeastern Indiana community. Melin, assistant superintendent of secondary education and At issue is whether Chase's technology. opinion column advocating Melin said Yoder would tolerance of homosexuals was have allowed the article to be suitable for a student newsprinted but likely would have paper distributed to students in grades 7 through 12 and suggested some changes. Sorrell has been placed on whether newspaper adviser Amy Sorrell followed protocol administrative leave and the in allowing the column to be school district has recommended she be fired. A public printed. Media advocates say the dehearing is scheduled April 28, and the school board expects bate has deeper ramifications. to vote May 1. "This is a real threat to qualLucy Dalglish, executive ity student journalism if an adviser can be removed for not director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the having censored a perfectly Press, argued that students legitimate story that there was no legal reason why it have access to much more shouldn't have been published," mature material in the school said Mark Goodman, executive library and on the Internet. director of the Student Press "Advocating tolerance is THE ASSOCIATED PRESS French voters propel top candidates to runoff Da3?JcraU) Established in 1873 A Lee Newspaper Angela Charlton THE Customer Service Newsroom agreement." But resident Jim Bridge took a tougher stand. JOE RAYMOND Associated Pres. "We all have rules that we Amy Sorrell, Monroeville, Ind. talks about the controversy she is involved in at her lawyers office have to abide by and it appears that she hasn't chosen to abide in Fort Wayne, Ind., on April 12. by the rules," Bridge said. "I own my own business and anycontroversial?" she said. hard it would be to come out ent than you." body that did that to me would be fired on the spot. She knew as homosexual in today's sociChase's column, which she She said she was surprised it had to be controversiaL" wrote after a friend told her he ety," she wrote. "I think it is so by school officials' reactioa "I didn't think it was any Sorrell, the daughter of a was gay, said society teaches wrong to look down on those that "it is only acceptable for a people, or to make fun of them, big deal," Chase said of the newspaper editor, said she thought she knew what was just because they have a differ- column. boy and a girl to be together," ent sexuality than you. There which makes declaring one's acceptable in the school district Sorrell, 30, said she showed is nothing wrong with them or the principal four stories about where she has taught English sexual orientation difficult. 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Both Sarkozy, a Hungarian immigrant's son, and Royal, a military officer's daughter who beat Socialist heavyweights to win her party's nomination, are in their 50s and have traveled long, arduous roads to get to this point. MICHEL EULERAssociated The winner's task will be naa in the presidential is French line France troubled to cast voters votes their tough: up election in Melle, western France on Sunday.. tion, still haunted by the riots by young blacks and Arabs in poor neighborhoods in 2005. Decades of stubbornly high unemployment, increasing competition from economies like China's, and a sense that France is losing influence in the world made this a passionate campaign. Both Royal and Sarkozy have promised to get France back on its feet but offer starkly different paths i, for doing that. Sarkozy would loosen labor laws and cut taxes to invigorate the sluggish economy, while Royal would hike government spending and preserve the country's generous worker protections. Press brutal. "I extend my hand to all those women and men who think, as I do, that it is not only possible but urgent to abandon a system that no longer works," she said. The runoff offers "a clear choice between two very different paths," she said. Royal, too, champions it must not be change but says Dally Herald. Any reproduction or other use is strictly prohibited without written permission. Japan expected to join U.S. in C02-fre- e SHIMBUN THE YOMIURI TOKYO The Japanese and U.S. governments will likely agree at a bilateral summit meeting scheduled for Friday on Japan's participation in a U.S. project to develop a coal-fuele- near-zer- power plant, Saturday. emission o it was learned Japan will cooperate with the United States in terms of funds and technologies for the FutureGen project, which the U.S. government has been promoting since 2003. South Korea and India have also participated in the project. 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